John Von Rhein – Page 27

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Salonen, CSO help deliver a potent new John Adams work

May 13, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

Just when you thought the subscription series at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra had settled into a predictable rut, along comes Esa-Pekka Salonen to shake things up with some enlivening blasts...

Recommended Chicago-area classical concerts

May 13, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Jonathan Berger's "Rime Sparse," a Harris Theater commission inspired by Petrarch sonnets and scored for soprano and piano trio, receives its world premiere. The...

Haymarket, Newberry groups moving Chicago to early music performance prominence

May 13, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

Chicago may not be quite up there with Boston or San Francisco as a prime center for early music performance in the nation. Not yet, anyway. But at the rate...

‘Eugene Onegin’ cast keeps Russian emotion boiling at Lyric

May 13, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

"Eugene Onegin" never pops up as often at Lyric Opera as those who adore Tchaikovsky's achingly romantic opera would like. So it was good to see the company rallying its...

Prokofiev’s ‘Ivan the Terrible’ gets royal treatment in CSO debut under Muti with Gerard Depardieu

May 13, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

Significant departures from the standard repertory have been few and far between in Riccardo Muti's programming during the course of his Chicago Symphony Orchestra tenure. But when those departures have...

Recommended Chicago-area classical concerts

May 13, 2019 at 2:08 p.m.

Lyric Opera – "Eugene Onegin": The magnetic Polish baritone Mariusz Kwiecien last portrayed the title role in Tchaikovsky's romantic opera here during Lyric's 2007-08 season, when Robert Carsen's production was...

Riccardo Muti will lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus and Chicago Children’s Choir in the premiere of an oratorio drawn from Prokofiev’s music to director Sergei Eisenstein’s unfinished film “Ivan the Terrible.&#8221

‘Ivan the Terrible’ oratorio gets CSO premiere courtesy of Muti

May 13, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

No major 20th century composer enjoyed a closer working relationship with the musical life of Chicago, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in particular, than Sergei Prokofiev. Chicago is indelibly associated...

Review: From Stewart Copeland, ‘Invention of Morel’ a brilliant piece of musical surrealism

June 5, 2018 at 9:26 p.m.

As the notion of "alternative facts" gains currency in today's theater of politics, it is worth reminding ourselves that alternative realities have held sway in the world of opera since...

Review: Passionate reading of Haydn marks CSO’s return to Holy Name

June 5, 2018 at 9:33 p.m.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's most famous concert given at Holy Name Cathedral in the presence of a dignitary of the Roman Catholic Church was in 1979, when the orchestra under...

Absence makes CSO’s music glow more fondly at Muti’s return to Orchestra Hall

May 13, 2019 at 2:08 p.m.

Riccardo Muti was back at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra podium on Thursday night, in his first appearance with the orchestra at Symphony Center since October. The burst of applause that...

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